Fifty years of success - and they’re so proud to be Portfolio Awards winners

The Sunderland Portfolio Business Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Make It Sunderland.
Winner - Berghaus.
It is 50 years and it is nice to have recognition for it. We have been a North East company from the beginning John Carver For 50 years, one Sunderland-based company has been at the forefront of outdoor clothes development.
Berghaus began life as a small shop on Newcastle’s Dean Street, set up by two climbers who decided to import and sell outdoor gear. It was so successful that they soon began to design, test and make their own.
In time, the company began to manufacture... read more

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